Second Life as a signal from the past

This is an example of Looking back to look forward. Second Life, launched in, I think, 2003, was at the time like a signal pointing towards a metaverse-future.

The world still exists and opinions by key observers and the founder are still relevant to think about the current metaverse-developments. Read this blog post about founder Philip Rosedale in the WSJ$ and this one about blogger and expert Wagner James Au on Bloomberg .